"You're Sister's master huh?""It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Rin, a merchant."The young knight with three scars on his face talked to me. He's the captain of the 17th knight squadron of the dukedom that has followed Liza. Even though they're knight of the dukedom, the captain doesn't hide his social status, the vice-captain introduces themselves. Both of them are commoners. Maybe because of that, they feel more like mercenaries than knights. I've thought that a knight would be a ranked noble, but it doesn't appear to be so.The vice-captain beside him is wearing a helmet, so his face can't be seen, but his tribe is the rare panther-headed clan. Of course, I'm not going to deliberately touch upon it."Hoo, she wasn't the guard of a noble but a merchant. At any rate, you've hired someone really capable, she can even use a magic blade. You're probably an heir to a very large merchant family right.""No, far from being large, I'm a merchant who doesn't even have a store on his own. T
"Are you leaving no matter what?"Viscount Nina who has come to see us off tries to detain me.Behind her, more than 20 servants and maids have also come.Of course, the mastermind is Kagari. Somehow the budget for it hasn't come from the baron but from my pocket instead, but if this is the result then I can consent.However, even though I've heard that it would be completed in spring, it's done already. It might have touched the heartstrings of the tailor. Cute is justice they say.By the way, it's early morning right now, the sun has just risen on the horizon.To be honest, I didn't expect that they would come for a farewell like this.I could see Pochi and Tama receiving something from Lady Soruna at the edge of my view. Looks like the things that entered their small purses are sweets.As for the other, men like the Baron, Hauto, and Zotol have also come.Lady Karina isn't here.I've asked the maid who's attending her room not to wake her up. Since she's always attacking me every d
Dwarves are typically said to live in caves, but from the information I've collected with All Map Exploration, about half of them live normally in the fortress. The other halves are exactly like that typical impression, they're living in the caves next to the city.This self-governing dominion of the dwarves isn't that wide. It's a valley of around 20 kilometers wide in radius. Inside the dominion, there's a city called Bollhart, and two villages. The city has a population of 30 thousand people, there are 20 thousand dwarves with levels averaging at 5-6, four thousand men, two thousand rabbits, two thousand humans, one thousand weasels, and the other 1000 are other demi-humans. There is no elf. I wonder if they're on bad terms?There are a lot of workers and human merchants from what I see in their occupations and skills.There are about 10 people who are higher than level 40 among the dwarves. The highest-leveled one is a dwarf called Dohar. If I'm not mistaken, he's the dwarf that m
"Then let me see you forge a sword. We'll talk after that."Jojori-san?I look at her, but she averts her eyes.We came to elder Dohar's workplace after passing through less-than-one-and-a-half meter high tunnel. There are also numerous high-level dwarves forging swords inside the room.They're all good. Every sword's offense, sharpness, endurance, and other parameters are 50% higher than the ones available in the city.The word earlier was addressed to me after I introduced myself to him."Father, Rin-dono is an acquaintance of Viscount Rottol, and--""Umu, I'm indebted to Nina, but this and that are different stories. I can understand people's nature from how they forge swords. Zajir, heat up a mithril ingot.""Uss, Shishou."Driar interceded, but elder Dohar quickly proceeded with the trial.The dwarf with a gray beard, Zajir, offers me the seat before the prepared ingot and tools.Well, since I've tried blacksmithing once in Muno City, I mostly understand the procedures, I'll try
The next morning, the sword is completed.I've struck enough to see it in my dream.The dwarf's secret medicine was used when the mithril was being heated up in the furnace. Since one of the ingredients is magic core powder, it might be for a dwarf-style magic weapon. Looks like the system is different than a magic weapon made with magic liquid."We finished without changing shifts. If you want to seriously train, come here anytime. Someone like you will surpass me immediately."Bang, elder Dohar slams my back.Guho. It's about as painful as Wagahai-kun's tail attack. If you don't mind the one on the receiving one, they could die you know?"You're quite good for a human!""Agreed, aren't you actually a beardless dwarf?""I didn't think that anyone other than Dohar-shi could swing that great hammer until morning existed.""You're very welcome anytime here."I've just swung the great hammer until morning as instructed by Elder Dohar, but it seems I've been approved by the dwarf blacksmi
On the next morning, three little girls and one girl are suffering from hangovers."Kuah, my head hurts. Uuh, it's blurry.""Ouch......Nodesu.""Rin, medicine."Of course, Nana who drank medicine yesterday is fine, but even Liza and Lulu are alright too.Lulu is handing water for everyone. When my eyes meet with Lulu, she turns red and looks down. I am not so uncouth as to quip the shameful sight of a drunken person, but since it's cute, I'll leave her like that.I make everyone drink the same potion that Nana has drunk.The effect of the potion is splendid, everyone who has been groaning since a while ago quickly gets back to their usual self and begins saying that they're hungry. I better not ask if they remember about yesterday. Particularly Kagari and Mia.Since Jojori-san has come for us, we're going to the dining room. Come to think of it, even though Elder Dohar and Jojori-san are the ruling family of this town, they're eating in the same room as the craftsmen and the blacksmit
"You've heard what I said from a while ago right mister? Even among dwarf blacksmiths, the only ones who could work on first-class stuff like mithril were the personal pupils of the old master. An ordinary working-class dwarf like me only makes swords from normal iron at best. I don't do mithril."The dwarf man who has been pressed for an answer declares so while shrugging his shoulder as if spitting it out."That can't be... Then where should I buy it? I've especially come here from Gururian city.""I duYeso such thing even if you ask me."It seems that even the dwarves don't know how to deal with the man who's lamenting exaggeratedly."There's a lot of people like that during this season. With the month changing in 8 days, the once-in-three-years martial tournament will open in the capital, so people are coming here looking for mithril weapons."After explaining it, Jojori-san says, "I'll go for a bit", and goes to quell the dispute. There are a lot of hidden bodyguards, so she shou
I'm told that the granddaughter of elder Dohar will be my wife if I stay, so I promise Zajir-san who glares at me when he hears that to part away, thus we leave Bollhart city behind.The nearest city is four days away.Since the path there is a mountain trail, it'll probably be five days.There are several carriages going in the same direction as us, but since our speeds are different, we're not moving in the caravan. It seems that normally, even if the moving speeds are different, many carriages join together to evade thieves, monsters and beasts.Since we wouldn't be able to craft, experiment, and do training if we were together with other merchants, I try not to intrude on each other's turf as much as possible.Even so, there are times when we meet them during the break, so I've put dummy barrels, boxes, and various luggage around.Currently, the coachman is Lulu. Kagari installed a cushion on the driver's seat during our stay in Bollhart City, so it looks comfortable now. It seems
Both of the masks have been broken, so I put on a white mask that Kagari made for cosplay at her request. I feel like I know where the inspiration for it comes from, but it seems like it'd fall off easily, scary. I put on cheap clothes and a mantle, and head toward the hall's exit.The hall looks disastrous to the point that I admire it for not collapsing.The floors are turned upside down, several pillars are destroyed, and many places have become craters. Some of the craters have glasses formed from Furnace Flame (Forge). There isn't any trace of the altar.I should say as expected of a demon lord. I've just barely won even though my level is three times as high and fully loaded with items.It's unfortunate that I won't get a rematch--I don't have even the slightest bit of such thought.Fortunately, the opponent was a type weak with magic, but if it was strong in both points, I might have lost.I'll go watch the tournament at the capital and study sword techniques and battle forms.
It's probably the effect of the demon's unique skill. The demon has revived as an undead. The demon's upper body which should have been lost has also regenerated in the blink of an eye. There's no worth in defeating this guy.The two liuyedao were lost somewhere when I destroyed the upper body earlier, thankfully.I do have several trump cards, but since I don't know how many times the demon can revive, I won't recklessly use them. It's painful that one MP recovery potion only recovers 20% of my MP with one bottle.From now on, I'll charge magic swords and the holy swords whenever I'm free."It has been since Yamato that I have to resort to using Banpufutou's effect. O Nanashi, perchance you can beat me? Yamato took the heavenly dragon's lot along to attack my castle. You alone intend to be the equivalent of a hero and heavenly dragon."Fumu, since my name is blank, it's [Nanashi]. I guess I'll call myself Nanashi from now on.Thanks to the HP potion and self-healing skill, my wounds
"What's wrong, are you so scared you can't talk?"Moreover, she's swinging her arms matching her speaking rhythm, so her exposed breasts are shaking and swaying. I can't help but become interested in it since a while ago. Yup, they're big relative to her age."O black-haired hero. I do not care why you're hiding your appearance, but can you entertain me like Yamato? I won't forgive you if you bore me."I wonder if she has see-through skills, the girl's eyes are shining red.I'm sorry for the possessing demon who's trying to set up the mood, but at this time, I'm not thinking, "How do I defeat the enemy", but, "How do I get this fellow out of the girl's body", instead.I wonder if I could do something with Saint's title and magic healing somehow?It might be good to learn ways to exorcise demons. It'd be terrible if someone I know got possessed.Let's use persuasion skills here--I've also thought of such thing. Before I could open my mouth, the girl's time was up."Thanks for making my
A person who looks to be a leader-type is scolding us with a rough voice in front of the door that leads to the ritual room. The scolding is over quickly, I slip in with the society members to go into the door.I've thought of this since I mixed in a while ago, but they're full of leaks.They don't look like a group that would do such outrageous things as summoning items from hell. There's something mismatched about this. I wonder if there's someone who's pulling the string from behind?Well, whatever.There are probably only a few places where they can hold the ritual, so if I destroy this place, people who are thinking of doing misconducts will lay low.The ritual room is wide. The width is 200 meters, the height is 20 meters, and the depth is nearly 1 kilometer long. Of course, there are a lot of standing pillars, but they sure are strong for supporting such enormous weight. Is it due to [Fixture Magic]?My thought had wandered off for a bit.The nearly 200 men and women inside the
The ship carrying us is anchored at a place where the capital's night view can be seen. The port is crowded due to the tournament season, so we're waiting our turn. It seems the duke has issued an order to prioritize ships that are carrying supplies, there are a lot of other anchored ships.Since the captain has gotten the right to enter the port first thing in the morning tomorrow, it looks like we could enter the port without waiting tomorrow.Everyone was watching the night view until just now, but since the youth trope began to doze off, I made them turn back to the room.I hear light footsteps, I look back, and there's Kagari."You're going after all?""Ah."I answer briefly to Kagari who's giving off a strange atmosphere."I can't imagine you'd fall off against opponents at the level of short horn, but absolutely don't let your guard down, okay?""Ah, I know. Or rather, I'm going for it before the short-horn demons could appear."We wouldn't be able to tour the capital relaxed i
A birdman who's flying near the water's surface as if gliding passes over the ship.Pochi and Tama are waving their hands to the point as if they'd get torn off. It seems the birdman is also giving a service, he makes several turns and does a full revolution before flying away.I'm afraid that the two will fall since they lean forward too much while waving their hands, but since Liza seizes the girdle, it's probably alright.Even if they fall, there's [Float] that I've learned recently so it's fine, but there's no need for them to fall in the first place.It's basically a leisure on the ship.Yesterday, the ship was attacked by two aquatic monsters, but before we could go out, the Gillman soldiers who were escorting the ship cleaned it up. There was also a pirate group, the river version, that was going to attack on the river branch, but I attacked them with Short Stun from afar, and their boat got capsized the end.Since it's generally peaceful like that, I continue practicing signal
I'm waving my hands on top of the departing ship. It's not only Princess Menea and her escorts that have come to see us off, but even the viceroy couple and Miss Ririna.There were imprudent young nobles and hooligans that they had hired aiming for Liza's spear waiting in the harbor, but the viceroy soldiers skilfully arrested them before they could cause harm to us. It seemed Miss Karina's maids had notified the viceroy beforehand after they heard about some disturbing rumors.The nobles had probably seen Liza's spear during the fight with the demon yesterday, but they were really confident if they thought they could go against her even after seeing that fight.I want to leave miss Karina too if possible, but my reputation would become bad if I do leave my employer's daughter, so I give up."Fufufuhn, you've raised and collected flags of the new character huh! She should just disappear after this."New character... Please don't like a person with characters."Are you still thinking a
"Well then, everyone, please enjoy the specialties of Gugurian."The viceroy says so signaling the start of the banquet.The people in this dining room are the viceroy, his wife and his retainers, gentlemen and ladies--who are of course nobles with peerages. The guests are Princess Menea, Poni-san who acts as her escort,and also lady Karina and me. The influential people in the city are only invited when it's a buffet party.By the way, only adults are allowed to participate in the banquet and party, their children aren't.The dining table is decorated with flowers, and two maids accompany each guest. The tableware is silver knives, spoons, and forks. Besides the knife that looks like an extremely common dagger, the spoon, and the fork are like the ones used in the previous world. There is only one set of the tableware for each plate, but it gets exchanged with new ones when you've finished your meal it seems.The room is lit with magic light. It's not with magic tools, but a magicia
The princess' entourages, Yui and Aoi pondered if I, who's called Rin and has black hair and black eyes, was a Japanese. It doesn't seem that they're aware of Kagari's name.The girl before me, Yui, is summoned from the Southern Japan Federation in a country separated to north and south. The kind of country's setting that's often found in fictitious military stories. It seems to be a real country from what she's said, I guess I shouldn't say 'setting' out loud.However, I've thought that I could easily go home if I just went to Saga empire, but if there are parallel worlds, I have to rethink my plan. Although from the start, I don't intend to go back until after the livelihood of Kagari, Liza, and the others are guaranteed here, so it's fine."By Japan, do you mean the illustrious country referred to by hero?""Rin isn't from one?""My house has always given the name of the eldest son, Rin, for generations long. It's said that our ancestor is a Saga Empire hero, but there's no hero ca